Dispensing-cabinet.



W. J. IANDRON. DISPENSING CABINET APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11. ms.

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DISPENSING-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

Application filed March 11, 1918. Serial No. 221,617.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILFRED J. JANDRON,

a citizen of the United States, residinsg at St.

Paul, in the county of Ramsey and ate of Minnesota, have invented a newand useful Dispensing-Cabinet, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to displaying and dispensing cabinets formerchandise, and the object is to provide a device for holding smallpackages of candies,chewing gums,

mints and other goods of several kinds concealed from. dust,yet'displayed and ready for the salesman to promptly find and deliverthem whenever called for.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improveddispensing cabinet partly filled with packages of goods. Fig. 2 is asection on the line 22 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top view of the cabinetwith the cover removed and most of the projecting.

base broken away. 'Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on the line 4-4 in Fig.3.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 5 designates a base uponwhich are secured by screws 6 four posts 7 which. are of angular crosssection and extend about half way .up the corners of the outer shell ofthe cabinet; said shell is preferably made of glass and composed of fourwalls 8, 9, 10, 11, cemented together and into the angular posts 7 wherethey are supported by lugs 12,

or any other suitable means. Each wall is spaced from the basesufliciently to leave an aperture 13-for the gradual escape of the goodstherethrough. In each aperture are fixed two curved guides 14 on whichthe packages 15 of the goods are fed by gravity out upon the base, till"the one farthest out stops against upturned guards 116 of the outer endsof the guides and thereby holds the bulk 15". ofthe packages retained inthe cabinet and leaves only one or two packages from each compartmentexposed upon the adjoining ortion of the base.

As alrea y indicated, the cabinet is formed with four compartments 8, 9,10?, 11, whose inner sides are made up of glass walls 8, 9 10, 11*,whichform a practically idle centralinclosure 17., The said inner walls havetheir lower ends set in cleats 18, and their upper ends held between ablock 19 and downward bent lugs 19 of a top plate 20.-

rods 27.

.11 the (see Fig. 3), which is fixed on the block and secured ,by acentral bolt or rod 21 having a head upon the plate and a nut 22 in theunderside of the base (see Fig. 1). 23 is a removable cover closing thetop of the cabinet proper.

The rear wall of each compartment is formed with a vertical slit 24, inwhich is guided a horizontal arm 25 of a yoke-shaped shelf 26. The innerend of the arm is fixed on a vertical wire or rod 27 having at its upperend a finger hold 28 by which the rod is manipulated. Each of said rodsis guided '111 an aperture 29 in the top plate 20 and has an S-shapedportion 30 (see Figs. 2 and 1) guiding along the inward sides of theidle inclosure 17, so 'as to hold the shelf in proper position in itscompartment.

In the operation of the device, the cover 23 is removed and the shelves26 raised b their Upon .each shelf is then piled a stock of say packagesof pepsin gum on one shelf, peppermint on another shelf, spearmint gumon a third shelf and packages of candy or other goods upon the fourthshelf, and as each shelf receives goods enough to fill the inclosure inwhich it moves it is lowered down until the lowest packages on the shelfescape laterally out upon the base, in ready position to be sold, asalready described.

From the illustration in Fig. 2 it will be understood that in thecompartments 9 and series of vertical inclosures open at the top mountedupon the base, and having each near the base a lateral outlet for goods,means in said outlet for guiding the lower portion of the goods out uponthe base and means on the base for limiting the escape of the goods fromthe outlet; a vertically movable shelf in each inclosure and a guidedrod extending from each shelf to the top of the inclosure, saidinclosures having each in one of its walls a vertical slit, and an armmoving in said slit and connecting therod with the shelf.

In testimony whereof I aitix my signature.

' W. J. JANDRON.

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